Alert archive / Tennessee / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2534
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 10, 2004, 10:12 AM CST for 8 states. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2004, 10:12 AM CST (16:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2004, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 150 counties
DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Banks County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, Craig County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 292 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 6:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Randolph | 90 min |
| Dec 9, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 4 hr |
| Dec 9, 8:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Carroll and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt and 29 more | 87 min |
| Dec 9, 11:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Carroll and 52 more | 83 min |
| Dec 10, 1:11 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 100 more | 64 min |
| Dec 10, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 11:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland and 31 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.